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it is snagged and it's hit that snag because establishment democrats like california senator dianne feinstein don't think bloggers and tweeters should have the same first amendment rights as reporters who work for big corporate outlets like fox or the new york times and its current form the senate's media shield law requires the justice department to give any journalist forty five days as up when they want to snow. a journalist according to the pending bill is anyone who has a primary intent to investigate events and procure material sounds pretty simple right well not for dianne feinstein of california senator told mcclatchy that she's worried that the word journalist is so vague that the proposed media shield law could provide special privileges to those who are not reporters at all in senator feinstein's opinion and yes this is her real opinion real reporters have salaries in other words they have to work for official news agencies acceptable to the washington establishment senator feinstein wants to make sure that the media shield law. doesn't save wiki leaks from prosecution however if c
it is snagged and it's hit that snag because establishment democrats like california senator dianne feinstein don't think bloggers and tweeters should have the same first amendment rights as reporters who work for big corporate outlets like fox or the new york times and its current form the senate's media shield law requires the justice department to give any journalist forty five days as up when they want to snow. a journalist according to the pending bill is anyone who has a primary intent to...
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right now more or less dianne feinstein and other members of the u.s. senator just trying to define the word press in the same press that is mentioned right at the beginning the first amendment to the constitution no matter how well intentioned their plan maybe it could backfire pretty badly when news first broke back in may that the justice department and seized the phone records of associated press reporters and track the movements of fox news's james rosen it was a great opportunity for congress to pass these stronger protections for the freedom of the press that frankly liberty requires the public was outraged and big name center. years from both parties including new york's chuck schumer and south carolina republican lindsey graham proposed new laws to protect journalists from prosecution that bipartisan push for a media shield laws now hit a snag and that snag includes senators like california's dianne feinstein who don't think bloggers and tweeters should have the same first amendment protections as reporters who work for big corporate outfits li
right now more or less dianne feinstein and other members of the u.s. senator just trying to define the word press in the same press that is mentioned right at the beginning the first amendment to the constitution no matter how well intentioned their plan maybe it could backfire pretty badly when news first broke back in may that the justice department and seized the phone records of associated press reporters and track the movements of fox news's james rosen it was a great opportunity for...
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dianne feinstein is actually trying to make the argument that she can distinguish basically whether or not you get paid to your duty whether or not you're actually a journalist correct so the question that i have is where we kind of beating off air here what is what happens when you have in this case miranda who's carrying information on behalf of greenwald he's not technically a journalist but he's moving information because they couldn't do this over phones and if they don't want this information capture they want to do it in person my question is who is the licensing authority who decides who is a journalist and who's not and i think you know that's a difficult question because what we do know that the guardian paid for his trouble . so there clearly the agency is lenny legitimacy to it but i'd say mark that there doesn't need to be one if somebody publishes their work even if it's on a blog they're damned journalists we need to we need to be as fanatic about the first amendment as the n.r.a. is about the second you know the first amendment i mean when you we can overlook press some
dianne feinstein is actually trying to make the argument that she can distinguish basically whether or not you get paid to your duty whether or not you're actually a journalist correct so the question that i have is where we kind of beating off air here what is what happens when you have in this case miranda who's carrying information on behalf of greenwald he's not technically a journalist but he's moving information because they couldn't do this over phones and if they don't want this...